In this controversial French drama we meet one of the screen's most dysfunctional families, on holiday and getting up to all manner of things which would give the neighbours back home a touch of the vapours.

Bertolucci's wonderful new film, based on the Gilbert Adair novel, The Holy Innocents, shows what the cinema as an artform is all about: stylish, observant, witty, loving, good-looking, rich in texture.